THE CHANNING TATUM STRIPPER VIDEO

This Channing Tatums stripper video (SFW, more or less) will inevitably be everywhere today, so I might as well post it. Otherwise you’d probably type in “stamp collections” and Google would ask “Did you mean Channing Tatum shaking his weiner?” But anyway, as uncovered by Us Weekly, Channing Tatum used to strip in a “Chippendales-style revue called Male Encounter” when he was 18.

The star — who performed under the alias “Chan Crawford” — approached the troupe’s owner London Steele at a now-defunct Florida nightclub about a job.
“He was shy at first, but he really knew how to work the stage,” Steele tells Us, adding that Tatum lip-synched in the act and earned $50 a night (plus tips) during his year-long stint.
“The women went crazy for him!” Steele added. Unfortunately for them, the revue had a strict no-nudity policy. Nevertheless, the actor — who wed his Step Up costar Jenna Dewan on July 11 — was so impressive he caught the eye of a female casting agent [yeah, female, sure] who put him in Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs” music video. [via Us]

I’m glad they got to this guy first, who says Channings approached him about a job, before Tatums had a chance to spin the story. Like all models do, you know he’d make it sound like he was just hanging out at the beach or casually playing skee ball with friends when all of a sudden a mysterious stranger offered him money to take his clothes off. They’re never honest enough to tell the real story, which is “Well, I was hanging out in front of the mirror shaking my weiner, and I was thinking to myself, ‘Wow, I’m really good at shaking my weiner.’ And then I thought, ‘Hey, I wonder if I could shake my weiner for money.'”

Luckily I have double-sided business cards so all my bases are covered when I gotta do my door-to-door thang.

By: Mark It Zero

08.12.2009 @ 9:38 AM

This is a shame. Such a promising career and then he has to go and degrade himself by doing G.I. Joe.

By: Stone Soup

08.12.2009 @ 9:39 AM

One night, years ago, I woke up to strange beeping outside. Then, I heard the sound of a hair drier, the television on full blast, and a record playing. Next, I heard laughter. By the time I got out of bed, the front door was open, and my wife was gone. I saw lights speeding away into the fog. It was a pick up truck with one guy driving and two dudes in the back. It seems my wife had a Male Encounter of the Third Kind.

By: Fek'lhr

08.12.2009 @ 9:41 AM

So, the little old widow lady had been alone for five years and decided to put an ad on EHarmony. It was real straightforward: “I want a man that won’t hit me, won’t run away on me, and is good in bed.”

A few weeks had gone by, and she hadn’t received a single reply. She had all but given up, then one day she hears her doorbell ring!

When she answer the door, there is a middle aged man, a quadruple amputee, in a motorized wheelchair. The widow asks, “Can I help you, sir?”

He replies, “I am here about your EHarmony ad!”

Trying to be polite, the widow asserts, “Oh, well, I am not sure you meet the specified qualifications, sir, I…”

“Oh, but I do!”, he interrupts, “You wanted a man that wouldn’t hit you, well I don’t have arms, so I can’t do that. You wanted a man that wouldn’t run off on you, well I don’t have legs so I can’t run!”

Entertaining the notion, the widow remarks, “What about the part about being good in bed?”

The fella puts on a big shit-eating grin and says, “How do you think I rang the fucking doorbell?”

By: Fek'lhr

08.12.2009 @ 9:45 AM

Stoney-He will assume you meant your ex-wife.

By: Al

08.12.2009 @ 9:51 AM

Holy hell. Worth getting up early for.

By: Donkey Hodey

08.12.2009 @ 9:52 AM

I shake my wiener for money all the time. So far Lincoln and Jackson have appeared unimpressed, but I’m pretty sure I got a wry smile out of Hamilton one time.

By: Stone Soup

08.12.2009 @ 9:59 AM

Fek, but of course.

By: Erswi

08.12.2009 @ 10:01 AM

Like 8 posts before lunch yesterday but today Channum stays up stripping until 10 am? Right, Vink only posted it because he had to.

By: Påüłÿ Ðąηgęrσűşľγ

08.12.2009 @ 10:02 AM

“Chan Crawford” sounds like an Asian owned Ford dealership.

By: Charlie Br0nze

08.12.2009 @ 10:16 AM

London Steele? That’s the worst name i ever heard.

By: Burnsy

08.12.2009 @ 10:21 AM

Man, Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan will be rolling in Step Up money for eternity.